(Note: The above picture is from November 2015 while the band was lining up for the Lancaster Christmas Parade.)
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We thought it might be interesting for the senior band members to be able to revisit some of the more interesting band experiences, and to also let everyone else get an idea of the many neat things that the band has done over the years.
Anyone is welcome to submit topics to possibly be added to this list by sending their memories using the form at the bottom of the CONTACT page.
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Remember When:
the Circleville Pumpkin Show opened the new park on North Court Street, and The Circleville Pumpkin Show Band was the FIRST group to perform there for the Pumpkin Show? Tuesday 10-16-2018 ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band played at the Ohio Governor's mansion in Bexley....TWICE? The first year the band played in a tent, similar to what the Pumpkin Show Visitor's Pavilion used to be, because of the rain. The second year the band played on what was basically the back porch (10-17-2009) ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band had so many flutes that they had to sit in 2 rows at practice? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band had a bassoon player? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band would play "Circleville March" and the composer, Mr. Burkhart, would be in the audience?
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Remember When: the band played at the Hocking Hills Lodge by the swimming pool? One of the band members, Ed Bennett on Sousaphone, was running the Lodge restaurant at the time. UPDATE 2018: This lodge burned down a couple years ago, and ODNR has started the process to rebuild on the same site. The next Lodge is supposed to include rooms for rent, and possibly won't be completed until at least 2020. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band was invited to play at the Circleville Halloween Parade, and Mr. Kerns (the Director for the band at that point) dressed up like a cowboy? Many of the band members dressed in some sort of costume too, but it was great to see the Director have a little fun, as well! ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: David Dillbeck WASN'T around to haul all the percussion equipment to band concerts, usually having to go the wrong direction to the performance location from his house to the band hall to pick the stuff up in the first place and then double back to get to the performance site? And then he would have to do the reverse AFTER the concert to drop off the band gear at the band hall before going home. And then usually have to jump in on any of the percussion instruments during the performance in order to fill in for absences. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: Jim Shea (Bass Drum) wrote the band newsletters? Unfortunately, Jim is gone now, but he was probably the band's biggest cheerleader and supporter. For years, he took on the almost always thankless task of creating the band's newsletter. You may not have ever known Jim personally, but you can kind of get to know him as the band did by reading one of his newsletters. Scanned copies of his publications can be found on the DOCUMENTS page of this web site. (LEFT click link below) Jim Shea Newsletters ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: Mr. Kerns (Past Director) would jokingly remind you, if you had to miss a band performance or practice due to another scheduled event, that you needed "to get your priorities in order" ? And then he would just laugh WITH you! ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band had at least 5 Tubas and Sousaphones, and two of them were husband and wife? Joe would play Tuba, and Deanna would play sousaphone. They would even bring their baby to band practice with them and let the baby stay in the carrier at their feet during band practice. THAT'S starting 'em early! ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band listed in the concert program that it had: 7 Flutes, 7 Alto Saxophones, 11 Trumpets, and 13 Trombones? This information came from the Spring Concert Program from March 28, 1999, ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: Pam Johnson on Piccolo did a duet with Carol Hunt on Bassoon? April 5, 1998, "The Cricket and the Bullfrog".
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Remember When: the band did "The Typewriter" by Leroy Anderson, and Gary Kenworthy actually did the sound effects using a REAL typewriter...with a little help from the rest of the percussion section? April 23, 2006. For those of you too young to know what a REAL typewriter is...Google it! .... Gary and the rest of the percussion section did a stunning job! The link below is to an audio recoring of the band doing "The Typewriter"
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Remember When: the Circleville Pumpkin Show actually started on Wednesday? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the Circleville Pumpkin Show added Tuesday night as a kind of "Preview Night" and didn't advertise it so that it was more for the locals and the locals could enjoy the Show but avoid the bigger crowds that would gather after the official opening on Wednesday? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the Circleville Pumpkin Show decided to officially advertise the Tuesday night activities on its advertising and web site, and even scheduled entertainment on the Main Street stage? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band had a lot more family members who played in the band together? The band has always been fortunate that it has definitely been a fun, family atmosphere, and there have always been various combinations of family members who have participated in the band at the same time. Some of these combinations have included: 1). Mr. Kerns (past Director) also had his 3 daughters play in the band at the same time. 2). Husbands and wives, 3). Grandparent and grandson, 4). A parent would have a child, or multiple children, who were members of the band together. 5) Father-in-Law and Son-in-Law, 6). Brothers and/or sisters, 7. A Grandmother, a). Her two sons, b). The wife of one of the sons, and c). A grandson.....all playing in the band at the same time. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band had TWO Bass Clarinet players? At the same time? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band got a "bus" to take people down to the Jackson Apple festival for the parade in order to help people get there and to alleviate the parking hassle, but the "bus" turned out to be more of a "tourist trolley" with wooden seats as opposed to something more like either a school bus or greyhound type bus, and EVERYONE who rode it complained about how bumpy the ride was on the way down? Some people who rode the bus down to Jackson were trying to find a ride back with anyone who came in a car as opposed to trying to ride the "bus" back to Circleville! ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: Jarrad Mathew (Euphonium) played the solo "Carnival of Venice" with the band at its Spring Concert, 4-5-1998? Jarrad was a Junior in High School at the time. He also played the solo with the band at the Courthouse Concert.
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Remember When: Becky Ohlinger did that wonderful French Horn solo called "Presto Chango"? Recorded 3-27-1993. Becky did a great job!
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Remember When: the band did at least one joint concert with the Lancaster Community Band? March 11, 1989, Plus, I believe the band did another joint concert in 1991. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: Jarrad left the band to enlist in the Marines and became a Euphonium Player with the FIrst Marine DIvision Band in Camp Pendleton, California, and came back on leave to play with the band at a Courthouse concert in 2001? (The one on the LEFT with the special hair cut!) ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band played for the Circleville Elks Flag Day observance, but it was held at the Pumpkin Show Park on North Court Street and NOT in front of the Elks building? It happened on June 14, 2019. The park had just been completed for basic use by the 2018 Circleville Pumpkin Show, although there were several additional construction projects still in progress over the next several months, and well into the summer of 2019. The new park is a wonderful place, and a great resource for downtown Circleville. And, it was rumored that holding the Flag Day observance at the park would keep the organizers of the event from closing off North Court Street in front of the Elks building. Whether this is true or not, the park is still a wonderful place for special events, AND for just having a place in downtown Circleville to just sit for awhile and enjoy the surroundings! ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: Clifford Kerns, then the Director of the Circleville Pumpkin Show Community Band, received the "Community Music Educator Award" from the Columbus Symphony? It happened in 2003. http://columbussymphony.com/education/past-winners Many band members were able to go to Columbus to attend the award ceremony, and to also watch the moving video tribute to him shown during the ceremony that some of the band members helped to create for the occasion. Unfortunately, health issues caused Mr. Kerns to give up the Director's baton in 2006, and he since passed away in 2014. He is deeply missed by everyone who knew him personally, or met him through his lifelong passion for music and for being a dedicated music educator. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: The Circleville Pumpkin Show Community Band DIDN'T have even an "unofficial" web site? Just like using e-mail, the band wasn't exactly on the front lines in embracing THIS part of technology, either. In fact, as of this writing (Jan 2020), this web site about the band is just 5 years old. It was started as a personal project by one of the long-term band members, in part, to keep both the band members and the general public informed on the band's performance and practice schedules. This can be useful to the band members since no one can ever be at every practice, and sometimes the band's schedule changes so frequently due to circumstances not under its control that trying to keep a regular and timely information flow to any local media outlet is difficult. The band's web site is also currently being used to provide a central listing of, and links to, all the YouTube videos either created by the musicians themselves, or that have been found involving the band. And lastly, the band's "unofficial" web site also serves as a reference library for all documents found to date involving the band, to include scanned copies of concert programs, band newsletters, media ads, and so on. In fact, the numbers related to how much this web site about the band has been used in the last 5 years, and the amount of materials that can be found on the web site, change almost daily but currently include the following:
When you get a chance, browse around the information on this web site. You just might find some things you didn't expect. |
Remember When:
the band would do their concerts on the Main Street stage at the Circleville Pumpkin Show (intersection of Main and Scioto Streets) , and then have to walk all the way back to the corner of Main and Pickaway Streets for the start of the parade route for the evening parades? Remember when some of us were younger and doing that walk carrying instruments and associated gear wasn't such a big deal? PLUS having to weave your way through the typical Pumpkin Show crowds! A GPS app on my phone indicates that the distance from the intersection of Main and Scioto Streets to the intersection of Main and Pickaway Streets is @ 1,618 feet, or @ .3 miles.......or if you are carrying a Sousaphone/Tuba, or even a Ephonium or a Trombone, it probably felt like @ 6 miles! t--------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band played a Glenn Miller medley at the Pumpkin Show, and due to schedule conflicts, there was only ONE saxophone in the section that night? Pumpkin Show October 2018. Janice, the first chair Alto Sax (below), was the ENTIRE Sax section for that night, and she NAILED the medley! What a GREAT job! t--------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band DIDN'T have its own, wonderful, practice room, and was practicing in the building next door to the building the current band hall is in? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band played a suite in concert where one of the movements dealt with a teenager getting a driver's license and getting into a car crash? April 5, 1997.. The percussion section actually brought in a box of broken glass to help simulate the sounds of the car crash. The song was "Young Person's Suite"
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Remember When: the band was asked to play in a parade at Buckeye Lake by Joe Albanese, a band member from a few years prior when he lived closer to Circleville, because another band that was supposed to participate in the parade had cancelled? It happened in 2007. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band recorded its own CD over 2 days at the Trinity Lutheran Church? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: Pam Johnson WASN'T around to play the trio to "Stars and Stripes Forever" on the Piccolo as a solo? Pam isn't one of the original members, but in a recent conversation with her, she thought that she had @ 30 years with the band! Probably very few in the band can remember when Pam wasn't in the band and jumping in on the Piccolo part for the trio of "Stars and Stripes". Only those musicians who have tried to play it on other instruments will ever come close to understanding how difficult it is, yet Pam just jumps right up and routinely plays it, usually as a solo, and does a GREAT job with it! ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band played a Christmas Concert on the stage used by the Roundtown Players? (Early 1990's) ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: you found that Ed Bugh had such a great singing voice? Ed, who played Trumpet but is now deceased, had a great baritone voice, and would periodically do vocals at band concerts over the years, and provided several vocals for some of the songs on the band's CD. The link below is to an audio recording of Ed singing "I Pledge Allegiance" I Pledge Allegiance ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band would play its concerts on the Main Street Stage at the Pumpkin Show, and the Trombones, Trumpets, and Basses were USUALLY underneath the roof of the trailer but the Clarinets, Flutes, and Saxes generally weren't, so that when it invariably rained, the woodwinds would get wet and the rest of the band was EXTREMELY happy with the luck of the draw? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band played at the Pickerington Senior Center, the band had added to the program a song that featured a Tuba solo, and when it came time for the solo, John, the Tuba player and an OSU fan, played part of the solo and then went into a version of "Across the Field"? June 27, 1996, Pickerington Senior Center, "Egotistical Elephant"?
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Remember When: the band played at the Lancaster Christmas parade, and it was sooooo cold that there were patches of ice on the carpet of the floor of the band trailer? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band played at the "Ameriflora" celebration in Columbus twice in 1992? 8-7-1992 and 10-11-1992 Mr. Kerns wanted the band to end the concert with "Stars and Stripes Forever' with all the brass instruments and Flutes/Piccolos standing in front of the band, and the band practiced in the other practice building for weeks to get the timing, and the steps right, and for everyone to figure out how to walk around all the music stands and chairs in order to get out front in time. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the FIRST part of the Pumpkin Show Parade route went: •1). West on Franklin Street from Pickaway Street, •2). North on Court Street, and •3). West on Main Street to get to Scioto,? This meant that eventually at the intersection of Court Street and Main Street, you would have the first half of the parade coming north on Court Street turning west on Main Street and MEETING the second half of the parade coming SOUTH on Court Street and turning East on Main Street? If you just stood at that spot, you could see the parade TWICE without moving at all!... PLUS, you would often have two bands playing at the same time...one coming from North Court Street and one coming from South Court Street, since in the middle of the intersection was an announcer's booth and they would be announcing the parade coming from both directions at the same time! ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band did ALL its concerts at the Pumpkin Show on the Main Street Stage because there wasn't any Visitors Pavilion? Well, starting with the 2017 Circleville Pumpkin Show, the Visitors Pavilion won't be used for musical groups, so the band will be starting possibly a new tradition as they identify a new location to do some concerts during the Show. Update 2017: For 2017, as mentioned in another post, Director Winner was gracious enough to convert the back of a building of his in downtown Circleville into a Concert Hall for the band. The band did all it's 2017 concerts in this band hall,audience attendance was great, and the whole project turned out great for the band. UPDATE 2018: And NOW, starting in 2018, there is a brand new Pumpkin Show Park on North Court Street that has taken over the entertainent events that formerly were presented on West Main Street! ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: you did your first night parade with the band at the Circleville Pumpkin Show and soon realized that, unless you had your music memorized, a light for your music stand would be a WONDERFUL idea? At the start of the parade route, you are in a fairly well lit section of town with all the ride lights, vendor lights, street lights, etc. But then you hit the dark areas of west Franklin Street and Pinkney Street where there are very few lights and you soon realize that being able to see your music was just wishful thinking! ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: Director David Winner graciously allowed his building at 121 East Franklin Street to be converted into a "music hall" for the band to perform in for the 2017 Circleville Pumpkin Show? The band HAD been performing at the Visitors Pavilion for many years, but for 2017 the function of the Pavilion was changed and did not schedule any music groups at all. However, David stepped in , and with the help of some of the band members, did basically a last minute conversion of part of his building to a "music hall" with tarps as a background, comfortable seats for the audience, etc..... The conversion turned out great, the band sounded great in the building, the crowds coming out to hear the band were large, and one of the concerts was recorded and made into a Youtube video. You can find a link to it on the VIDEO page of this web site. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: you FIRST started reading this page when all you intended to do was to just check your e-mail "real quick"? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band was playing at the Columbus "Ameriflora" Celebration, and Mr. Kerns (Director) had the Tubas and Sousaphones play "Beer Barrel Polka"? The Bass Section did a GREAT job with the song, and we are fortunate to have a video recording of that entire concert on YouTube (link below). It all happened on 8-7-1992. Links to the entire concert, and to just "Beer Barrel Polka" are below. Beer Barrel Polka Ameriflora Concert 8-7-1992 ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band did two joint concerts with the band from Washington Courthouse? One concert was held in Circleille, and one concert was held in Washington Courthouse. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band first started in 1979 as a part-time project, but then the musicians wanted to keep playing year round, and before anyone could blink an eye, the band was playing in its 40th summer in 2018? Actually, to be expected, hardly anyone is left in the band from the 1979 group and who was still playing in 2018. So far, thanks to personal interviews and checking our library of pictures, we have been able to identify 5 people still making music with the band 40 years later:
Congratulations to these fine musicians who have helped keep the band going for all of these years, and who have given countless hours over these 40 years in order to both entertain and represent the community in this way! (below, a picture taken from a band practice in 1979!) ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band played at the first time for the 2019 Pickaway County Fair, and played for the Veterans Observance at the brand new amphitheater? 6-18-2019 The new amphitheater is a WONDERFUL new facility, and will be a tremendous resource to the Pickaway County Fair and to the Circleville community for years to come. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: The Circleville Pumpkin Show Community Band started to sprout plastic band instruments like Spring flowers? The Wednesday night parade at the Circleville Pumpkin Show, 10-16-2019. Plastic Clarinets have been around for quite awhile, and have been a typical "go-to" instrument over the wooden ones for the unpredictable weather and temperatures of outdoor concerts. However, quality plastic instruments built to replace typical "brass' band instruments have only been around for a few years. If you check out the picture below, on this night at the Pumpkin Show, you will find a blue Trombone and a green Trombone in the front row. If you look in the center of the pic, you will see the top of a red Euphonium peeking out. Those band musicians who use the plastic instruments in the place of metal ones for these kinds of performances usually give them positive reviews. These musicians especially like to use them in the rougher environment of a bandwagon on a parade where the close quarters, constant lurching of the wagon during frequent stops and starts, and worry about falling music stands and metal chairs would generally make for a hazardous environment for quality, precision instruments made of soft metal. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: A virus spread internationally in the early months of 2020, presumably starting from China, that pretty much shut down the entire world for a time, to include cancelling the band's 2020 Spring Concert, and many practices? The world will not soon forget the word "Coronavirus". Pretty much all life stopped as the Ohio Governor, along with many other Governors and leaders of countries around the world, directed everyone to restrict their movements outside of their homes, and they closed as many types of businesses and other activities, as these officials felt possible, where people would normally gather in order to stem the transmission of the virus from person to person. A natural side effect of these kinds of decisions meant that the band had to cancel its 2020 Spring Concert, and shut down all practices. As of this writing (3-19-2020) the world is still in the middle of this catastrophic event that has changed lives as surely many thought that nothing could, outside of the example of the now shockingly similar horror moves currently streaming into our homes. There are glimmers of hope currently offered by various official sources that at least give a nebulous time frame when we can hopefully all start down the path to a new "normal". It may be vague, but at least there is hope offered that there actually could be an end to this nightmare. We shall see how these events play out. |
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John Anthony (Trumpet) and his two sons played "Buglers Holiday" as a Trumpet trio? The link to the Youtube video below is NOT from the Anthony family, but "Buglers Holiday" as a Trumpet trio to show the difficulty of the song! Buglers Holiday ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band DIDN'T have its own band trailer, and borrowed the one from The Adelphi Community Band? However, there were too many Pumpkin Show Band musicians for them all to fit on the trailer, so some of them had to sit on the bed of the truck that was pulling the band trailer. Mr. Kerns would have to stand on the front of the band trailer so that the musicians on the bed of the truck could hear his instructions. t--------------------------------------------------
Remember When: there was a time you DIDN'T play in The Circleville Pumpkin Show Community Band? t--------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band played as background for a three-woman group that called themselves the "Yankee Hens", the Circleville answer to the "Dixie Chicks"? The ladies sang at a couple concerts to "Naughty Lady of Shady Lane", and "Me and My Shadow". At least 2 of the ladies were mothers to members of the band. The link below is to an audio recoridng of the ladies singing, "Naughty Lady" Naughty Lady ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: you were pretty sure that NO ONE could make "Hang on Sloopy" into a Christmas song? "Hang on for a Sloopy Christmas"
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Remember When: the band's uniform shirts were Orange and NOT White? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: both The Adelphi Community Band and The Circleville Pumpkin Show Community Band were scheduled over at least a couple years to both play for the Friday night parade at the Pumpkin Show, and the Saturday night parade at the Jackson Apple Festival the month before? The band actually had several members who would literally, but slowly, jump off of one band wagon at the end of the parade route and jump on the band wagon for the other band and go through the parade route again! ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: Mr. Barnhill was the announcer for the band? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band played a Christmas Concert at the ( since torn down) Circleville High School auditorium? The band did at least one Christmas Concert at the old Circleville High School in December 1991. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: Mr. Kerns played a Euphonium solo with the band called "Mirror Lake"? The song referenced Mirror Lake on the south campus of The Ohio State University. You can find several versions of the song, although played by someone else, on Youtube. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the wonderful cooks and bakers in the band would bring so many cookies, snacks, and other goodies to the Pickaway County Fair Harness Races to share with the band that the band members couldn't eat them all? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band DIDN'T use e-mail or a web site to try to share information about the band's activities and schedule? It actually hasn't been THAT long since the band started using this additional communication system. But, realizing that not every band member can attend every practice, and many band members like to get reminders of upcoming events, and that the band wanted the general public to have as much information as possible of the band's performance calendar, at some point it finally seemed like a good idea for the band to embrace this technology for multiple purposes. Certainly, much appreciation should go to Director Winner who has currently taken up the task for the band of doing e-mail updates. In addition, the band's current (unofficial) web site will be 3 years old in January 2018. ------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band performed the number "Trombone Rhapsody"? It could rightly be called a "novelty number" for the Trombones, but it was fun, and they did a great job with it! The link below is to an audio recording of the band playing "Trombone Rhapsody" Trombone Rhapsody ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: David Winner took over as Director for the band when Mr. Kerns announced his retirement on December 10, 2006? The band is fortunate to have someone like Director Winner leading the band. Probably even most people in the band don't realize just how much work he puts into the band, not only in terms of hours but in terms of physical work in taking the responsibility to haul band equipment around for the performances, like music stands and a lot of the percussion "toys"..... Often with very little help. He is usually the first one at a performance in order to help set up chairs and everything that the band needs, and is also one of the last ones who gets to walk away since everything that he helped haul to the performance site he then makes sure gets back to the band room. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band had their Pumpkin Show concerts moved from the Main Street Stage to the Visitors Pavilion Tent, and many of us thought that we were basically getting "demoted", but then we realized that the Visitors Pavilion tent was larger, much easier to set up for the band, AND it was out of the Pumpkin Show rain and cold, and then it was like we got PROMOTED to be moved to the Pavilion? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: John Denver died in an airplane accident on October 12, 1997, and the band did a John Denver Medley at the next year's Spring Concert on 4- 8-1998 in remembrance?
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Remember When: you went to to play with the band in your first Lancaster Christmas parade, and you soon realized several things? 1). You probably didn't dress warmly enough, 2). You discovered just how heavy the traffic was while you were trying to get either a place to park ON the fair grounds, or NEAR the fairgrounds, so that even though you know you left home in PLENTY of time, you barely made it to the band trailer in time for it to take off onto the parade route, 3). This was probably the first Christmas parade you had ever been in, or seen, where the people lining the streets were less interested in the Christmas parade, or Santa, and WAY more interested in the football game between Ohio State and Michigan that was often scheduled for later that day, and 4). You realized you were suddenly hungry the minute the band trailer passed by the doughnut shop on the parade route, and you heard at least one band member (possibly YOU) asking if the band trailer could detour through the drive-thru! ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band played for the casting of the Ohio Bicentennial bell for Pickaway County in 2003? ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band had 4 Euphoniums? It may have happened other times as well, but it definitely happened during Pumpkin Show 2018! They sounded great! ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band moved the Circleville TUBACHRISTMAS concert from the Courthouse steps to the new Pumpkin Show park at 121 North Court Street? The new park turned into a wonderful place, a real benefit to the community, and a testament to the vision of the Circleville Pumpkin Show officials. Since the park was completed in time for the 2018 Circleville Pumpkin Show, the band made the decision to move the 2018 Circleville TUBACHRISTMAS concert there. Many thanks to the Circleville Pumpkin Show officials for creating such a wonderful space in downtown Circleville to be enjoyed all year long! ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: the band established a "Uniform Committee" to check into options of changing the official band shirt from white to some other color? This was the Spring of 2019. The committee did a lot of work, and Director WInner agreed to have the band switch from white shirts to a dark green. The band is going to stay with the bright orange windbreakers. As of this writing, orders for replacement shirts have been made, and they are expected in about mid-Summer 2019. The band should be outfitted in them by Fall 2019. UPDATE 8-4-2019: The band wore their new shirts for the first time today in a concert at the Ashville Gazebo Concert Series. ---------------------------------------------------
Remember When: Fred (Tuba) was recognized in an article in the Chillicothe Gazette for currently playing in the Circleville Pumpkin Show Community Band with THE Tuba that his Grandfather played in a military band in WWI? The article was in the paper November 2007, along with a picture of Fred and his Tuba (below). To be clear, this is not a Tuba LIKE the one his grandfather plaed in a military band in WWI, it is THE Tuba that his Grandfather played in WWI. Fred's Grandfather was even stationed in Camp Sherman in Chillicothe, Ohio for a period.
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Remember When: the band played at the 2019 Circleville Pumpkin Show and had 2 members recovering from similar ankle surgeries at the same time? In 2019, the band played 2 concerts at the Pumpkin Show Park on North Court Street on the stage, and 2 concerts at Director Winner's building on East Franklin Street, over a 4 day period. Meanwhile, the band had two members who, by coincidence, had both recently had similar ankle surgeries and were both using the kind of carts that let you place weight on the knee of the affected leg, but keeping weight off of the surgically repaired ankle, and be able to walk/roll around to still have some degree of mobility. To the credit of both musicians, they both made it to each concert, which for anyone who has ever been to a Pumpkin Show, means an almost 2 block walk from Director Winner's building to the park (let alone however far they had to walk from their cars to the Pumpkin Show). This certainly had to be both a daunting and inconvenient trek past throngs of people, over a labyrinth of various sized electrical cables, around street potholes, and dodging various other travel impediments, ......and topped off with several steps up to the stage at the Pumpkin Show Park. Because of not being able to yet apply weight to the affected ankle, once she reached the stage at the park, one of the musicians had to place a mat on the steps and just scoot up and down the steps on the body part that is usually reserved for just sitting on a chair. Fortunately, not having had to personally deal with that kind of inconvenience, it is difficult for me to imagine having to go through all of that...especially just to play in a band when the easiest decision to make would have just been to tell yourself that you would be safer, and it would have been far less work, to just stay in the relative comfort of your Living Room during the Pumpkin Show. But the band musicians are a tough breed of people, and both of these musicians clearly love to play music. The Circleville Pumpkin Show Community Band is proud to have musicians with this kind of dedication. |
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